07.07.2013

In the House of the Hangman 1378

There is the
equivalent in weight of 100 elephants in a small cumulous cloud. There are
whales small as elephants. In a canyon, a sound was very hungry, as hungry as a
puma, so it went looking for ears. Infinity is the last of its kind unless we
live in a foam. I didn’t know scallops have blue eyes and that they also snap
at you when you pick them up off the ocean floor. What do you call someone who
believes so firmly in the promise of salvation through a set of rigid rules
that he is willing to risk his own life to spread those rules? A religious
fanatic? A holy warrior? How about an Arclight biotrade negotiator? Take Fish
Boy here, one of those happy accidents that happen from time to time. He’s so
toxic that even his breath can kill you. Not that I’d ever get that close, you
see? Just an observation from the sledge deck. We’re hovering above what used
to be the Everglades, the last outpost of the United Asshole League, I mean …
Liberty Central, the free zones, where death is a holiday from time, the last
fringe benefit of a system that gave up the ghost a century ago. The funny
thing is that I didn’t remember the image correctly. I rechecked the website
and visited the gallery the same day, discovering that the sculpture was
actually of a melting ice floe. I mean, if mathematics needn’t be accountable
to philosophical standards of rationality, then it might as well be speculative
theology! Also I called my old job earlier and hopefully they will call back
soon because goddamnit nipple piercings don’t pay for themselves. Besides,
as Kush has it, “My work is meant for Post Apple 2200-2300-2500 on out, when
someone will enter into a real space to commune with the living poetics of my
subjects and thereby enter Eternity / William Blake’s GOLGONOOZA.” I see — I see — don’t crowd
so on me, — I see — I see — too many forms — don’t crowd so on me — I see — I
see — you are thinking of something — you don’t know whether you want to do it
now. I see — I see — don’t crowd so on me — I see — I see — you are not sure, —
I see — I see — a house with trees around it, — it is dark — it is evening — I
see — I see — you go in the house — I see — I see you come out — it will be all
right — you go and do it — do what you are not certain about — it will come out
all right — it is best and you should do it now.